RE: New runner

["Jeroen Frijters" <jeroen at sumatra dot nl>]

Thomas Zander wrote:
> The way the config settings are shipped is not the issue here;  the
> question where a socket can connect to that is reachable from 
> the testing machine so the test does not fail because of wrong
> reasons is a bigger problem.

I thought the tests only connect to an SMTP server? Presumably most
people have access to an SMTP server. You could ask a question in the
test configuration step (where you ask about awt tests).

> When we are actually running this test we already did a 'java 
> -jar' and we found several classes in that jar.  Does that not
> imply that the tests in that class will pass?

Not necessarily. With IKVM, for example, you can pre-compile the jar
into a .NET executable and run that directly, that way no Java I/O is
involved in starting up the tests. I'm sure a similar scenario exists
for gcj.

Regards,
Jeroen